UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello people,
This question might seem to be a little naive but here it goes:
I want to know the PID of a script that is running in the background.
eg: There is a script called Data_Downloader.sh
I am using the command:
ps -ef | grep Data_Downloader.sh
But I am getting the output as
wrkarea 18524 9063 0 15:46:41 pts/4 0:00 grep Data_Downlaoder.sh
Thanks in advance.

That means the script is no longer running.

If you wish to get the pid from within that script add a line like echo $$

Hello redoubtable (nice nick by the way),
the script runs for 30secs ... and I am running the script within this time itself. So not sure what the problem is.

AFAIK it should show process details if process is running. It might have been complete or killed and then you checked ps. (Just a doubt)

When you fire "bg" command does it show that your script is running in background ?

- nilesh

Do one thing..... Run script and immediately run ps command.
Dont waste your time in typing ps -ef

try this..

Code:

sh your_script.sh; ps -aux | grep your_script

Ok guys here is the latest update !!!
i'm running the script like this:
./Data_Downloader.sh &
i am doing ps -ef | grep Data_Downloader.sh | grep -v grep
but as usual with no luck at all!!!
I also tried it with ps -ef | grep Data_Downloader.sh as stated earlier but with no luck.
There is a sleep time of 60 secs now in the script and i beleive my typing speed is good enough to get me the results!!!

Is this because of the sleep time that is there? Does ps -ef list the processes that are sleeping because the manual says that it lists all the 'active' processes.